Sentences with phrase «large sheets of ice»

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There are more, however, including the amount of sunlight an ice sheet is able to reflect; the larger an ice sheet, the more sunlight is reflected, but the smaller an ice sheet, the more ocean there is surrounding the ice sheet to absorb the sunlight which in turn heats up the surrounding waters increasing the melt which decreases the size of the ice sheet which in turn... and so goes the cycle.

Using a cookie dough scoop or an ice cream scoop of medium size, scoop the cookies onto the prepared tray, 6 per sheet (I baked a greater number per sheet for the party because I was trying to bake such a large number).

For large cookies, use 1/4 cup (60 ml)(60 grams) of batter (I like to use an ice cream scoop) and place six cookies on each baking sheet.

1) Mix flour, butter and icing sugar in a bowl using two knives to cut the butter until the mixture resembles fine breadcrumbs 2) Add in the egg yolks and vanilla extracts and mix well, then add iced water until the dough starts to come together 3) Shape the dough into a ball on a cool, flat, floured surface 4) Flatten dough into a disc and then wrap in plastic wrap, and chill in the refrigerator for at least 30 minutes 5) Meanwhile, peel, core and slice the apples into as thin slices as possible 6) Mix sugar and ground cinnamon powder with sliced apples and let it rest for a while 7) Pre-heat oven to 180 deg cel 8) Once dough has chilled, roll pastry dough on a sheet of parchment paper until it has expanded to the size of the tart mold (I used a rough mold the size of a large pizza) 9) Leaving at least an inch of dough free, arrange apple slices by overlapping them slightly in the shape of a circle, starting from the outermost part of the circle, until you reach the inside 10) Fold the edges of dough over the filling and then sprinkle the dough with a bit of sugar 11) Bake for about 40 - 45 minutes, or until the crust is golden brown and the apples are soft 12) Serve warm, with a side of whipped cream or ice cream (optional)

Using a large ice cream scoop, make balls of ice cream and place them on the sheet pan then return them to the freezer.

Pipe icing in very thin, very straight lines across a parchment - lined baking sheet, spacing close together (if icing does not squeeze out of bag easily, snip a slightly larger opening).

Use an ice cream scoop to dish out 8 large balls of ice cream and then place them on a parchment paper lined sheet pan

Drop approximately 1/4 cup portions of the dough onto an un-greased cookie sheet using an ice cream scoop or large spoon.

Once frozen pop the ice out of the container and put on a large cookie sheet.

Rest a balloon or beach ball on top of a cone (use a small toy traffic cone, a large funnel, or even just a sheet of heavy paper rolled up) and have kids walk or run while keeping their ice cream cone intact.

The governor, who has been around the state politics since the Laurentide ice sheet retreated, knows something about the tortured relationship between the chief magistrate of the state's largest city and the state capital.

A large area of the Greenland ice sheet once considered stable is actually shedding massive amounts of ice, suggesting that future sea - level rise may be worse than expected, a team of scientists warned yesterday in a new study.

Large areas of the Earth's surface are experiencing rising maximum temperatures, which affect virtually every ecosystem on the planet, including ice sheets and tropical forests that play major roles in regulating the biosphere, scientists have reported.

And over the past 18 months, two of the peninsula's largest ice shelves, the Larsen B and the Wilkins, have lost nearly 1,100 square miles of their total area, a sheet of ice about the size of Rhode IslandCK.

This isn't the first time ice sheets have calved from the Greenland mainland, but it's one of the largest breaks.

Even relatively large calving events, where tabular ice chunks the size of Manhattan or bigger calve from the seaward front of the shelf, can be considered normal if the ice sheet is in overall balance.

ITS vast ice sheets and monsoon run - off make the Tibetan plateau one of the largest sources of fresh water on an increasingly thirsty planet.

«The fact that a large portion of the western flank of the Greenland ice sheet has become dark means that the melt is up to five times as much as if it was a brilliant snow surface.»

Co-author Professor Jonathan Bamber, based at the University of Bristol, and President of the European Geoscience Union (EGU), added: «We are seeing changes in the large - scale circulation patterns, which leads to more frequent sunshine and higher amounts of solar energy reaching the surface of the ice sheet.

The Dark Zone of Greenland ice sheet is a large continuous region on the western flank of the ice sheet; it is some 400 kilometers wide stretching about 100 kilometres up from the margin of the ice.

Ice - sheet growth, coupled with favorable changes in Earth's orbit, pushed the planet past a climatic tipping point and led to both the rapid buildup of a permanent ice sheet in the Antarctic and much larger changes in global climate, says HrIce - sheet growth, coupled with favorable changes in Earth's orbit, pushed the planet past a climatic tipping point and led to both the rapid buildup of a permanent ice sheet in the Antarctic and much larger changes in global climate, says Hrice sheet in the Antarctic and much larger changes in global climate, says Hren.

Buried under a sheet of ice 2.5 miles thick, Lake Vostok is the world's seventh - largest freshwater lake and the largest of more than 300 lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

Some of the variation the researchers found likely dates back to isolation of different Hermit Thrushes populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size, with larger birds producing lower - frequency songs.

«The Ross ice shelf for instance, is the main outlet for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which encompasses several large glaciers and contains the equivalent of five meters of sea level in its perched ice.&raqice shelf for instance, is the main outlet for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, which encompasses several large glaciers and contains the equivalent of five meters of sea level in its perched ice.&raqIce Sheet, which encompasses several large glaciers and contains the equivalent of five meters of sea level in its perched ice.&raqice.»

The slipperiness, caused by films of water spread over large areas, helps ascertain how quickly a melting ice sheet will slide into the sea as the climate warms — and thus how quickly sea levels will rise.

Melting of ice shelves does not directly contribute to sea - level rise, but instead they hold back water frozen in the larger ice sheet that will cause sea levels to rise.

Greenland's ice sheet melts and sends large amounts of fresh water into the coastal waters, where it is of major importance for local production but potentially also for global ocean currents.

The large Leverett Glacier, however, is more representative of the glaciers that contribute the bulk of meltwater coming from the Greenland ice sheet, said Hawkings.

Traveling by helicopter from the main American base of McMurdo Station on Ross Island to the Dry Valleys, researchers fly over a portion of the Ross Ice Shelf and then a corner of the mesmerizing white spread of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet, which is the largest in the world.

By 2100, the choice of driving climate model conditions dominates the uncertainty, but by 2200, the uncertainty in the ice sheet model and the elevation scheme are larger.

It is not clear yet how much of the phosphorus being released from the ice sheet is reaching the open ocean, but if a large amount of phosphorus coming off the glacier makes it to the sea, the nutrient could rev up biological activity of Arctic waters, according to the study's authors.

«By refining the spatial pattern of mass loss in the world's second largest — and most unstable — ice sheet, and learning how that pattern has evolved, we are steadily increasing our understanding of ice loss processes, which will lead to better - informed projections of sea level rise.»

Totten Glacier, the largest glacier in East Antarctica, is being melted from below by warm water that reaches the ice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheice when winds over the ocean are strong — a cause for concern because the glacier holds more than 11 feet of sea level rise and acts as a plug that helps lock in the ice of the East Antarctic Ice Sheice of the East Antarctic Ice SheIce Sheet.

When large parts of the ice sheet melted at the end of the ice age, the weight of the ice sheet decreased, and the crust began to rebound.

A March study shows that one large swath of the ice sheet sits on beds as deep as 8,000 feet below sea level and is connected to warming ocean currents.

If the East Antarctic ice sheet, which is 10 times larger than the western ice sheet, melted completely, it would cause sea levels worldwide to rise almost 200 feet, according to Kathy Licht, an associate professor in the Department of Earth Sciences in the School of Science at IUPUI.

On a clear day, anyone flying over Greenland on the route between North America and Europe can look down and see the bright blue patches of melted water atop the flat, blindingly white expanse of the ice sheet that covers the island, the second largest chunk of ice on Earth.

The reason was that ice sheets across Scandinavia and North America produced a large amount of fresh melt water from icebergs.

The continually dropping slope helps explain why northern Greenland, unlike Antarctica, has no large subglacial lakes: Meltwater that either forms at the base of Greenland's ice sheet or ends up there after draining from the ice sheet's upper surface flows away uninterrupted.

«It turns out that for much of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet's history, it was not the commonly perceived large stable ice sheet with only minor changes in size over millions of years,» he saIce Sheet's history, it was not the commonly perceived large stable ice sheet with only minor changes in size over millions of years,» he Sheet's history, it was not the commonly perceived large stable ice sheet with only minor changes in size over millions of years,» he saice sheet with only minor changes in size over millions of years,» he sheet with only minor changes in size over millions of years,» he said.

Around 6 million years ago, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet expanded, stabilized and ceased producing large volumes of meltwater.

It's one of the largest ice streams draining the West Antarctic ice sheet, hundreds of kilometres long and about 100 kilometres wide.

Based on the southern core we thought this was a localized low heat - flux region — but our model shows that a much larger part of the southern ice sheet has low heat flux.

«During the last ice age around 20,000 years ago, large parts of Canada were covered by an ice sheet.

The East Antarctic ice sheet is the largest ice mass on Earth, roughly the size of Australia.

We determine that this difference is driven by the growth and retreat of large continental ice sheets that are present in the cold ice - age climates; these ice sheets reflect a lot of sunlight and their growth consequently amplifies the impact of CO2 changes.»

Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Edinburgh used data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 to identify a sudden drainage of large pools below Thwaites Glacier, one of two fast - moving glaciers at the edge of the ice sheet.

Jakobshavn Isbræ, which is widely believed to be the glacier that produced the large iceberg that sank the Titanic in 1912, drains the Greenland ice sheet into a deep ocean fjord on the coast of the island.

But the large volumes of data on Arctic sea and land ice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenlaice that IceBridge has collected during its nine years of operations there have also enabled scientific discoveries ranging from the first map showing what parts of the bottom of the massive Greenland Ice Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of GreenlaIce Sheet are thawed to improvements in snowfall accumulation models for all of Greenland.

The Greenland ice sheet is thought to be one of the largest contributors to global sea level rise over the past 20 years, accounting for 0.5 millimeters of the current total of 3.2 millimeters of sea level rise per year.